Columbus Police Kill Boy, 13, Who Pulled BB Gun

Tyre King, 13, died last night after he was shot by Columbus police in an alley, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Officers were called to the area after a man said that several young men approached him, one with a gun, demanding money. King was fleeing on foot when he pulled what police later determined to be a BB gun with an attached laser sight from his waistband. An officer then shot him.

A man who lives in the area said he heard someone knock down a gate in his backyard. He looked outside to see a police officer chasing two young men into an alley behind his home. He said he then heard three to five gunshots from the alley.

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